Mountain landscape - Europe

Aiguille de la République and Aiguille des Grands Charmoz

One of my favourite mountain landscape photographs, due to the subject matter, the atmospheric clouds and the crispness of the late afternoon light, this image was captured from across the Chamonix valley using a 70-200m lens, which compresses the glaciated slopes of Dent du Géant behind (which, in reality, are over 5km away). Part of the Chamonix needles (aiguilles), Aiguille de la République and Aiguille des Grands Charmoz I understand are the same mountain - the former being a satellite peak of the latter, and the culmination of an amazingly spiky ridge rising high above the Mer de Glace glacier. The normal climbing route up Aiguille de la République culminates in a blank slab which various sources share that climbers usually aid to reach what looks to be spectacularly exposed summit. A popular route up Aiguille des Grandes Charmoz, which is 3,445m high, is the Cordier Pillar, which I believe is on the sunlit face to the right of the obvious sun/shade line, which itself defines the mountain’s north-west arête. Just two of the many spectacular mountains you’ll find in the European Alps.